I did lose most of my source files in a hardware crash last summer, so I can't say when or if I wil be updating this at some point. If anyone knows a working way to unpack my own released BGLs to make these changes, please contact me via PM. Airport2Project can't unpack it because there's CGL data in the package which makes the tool crash. And the programmer of the tool seems no longer active on the forums. 

English:

This is my recreation of the Wunstorf Air Force Base ETNW, home of the Air Transport Wing 62 of the German Air Force and its fleet of Airbus A-400Ms. The version of this air base that is present in the unmodified MSFS is helplessly obsolete, as the underlying Bing satellite pictures it was generated on are from 2010, showing the base during its rebuild towards the A-400M era. As you can see in the screenshots its looking very different today.

The new aerial texture covering the air base and its immediate surroundings were created following Flying Thestons CGL method, and every new hangar, building, radar dish ligth mast and taxiway light were handcrafted by me in Blender and Gimp. The static Airbus A400-M is by ask13freak @ blendswap, and the static C-160 Transall by Helijah @ blendswap, both modifed and used accoring to CC-BY-SA licensing.

Many thanks to @mamu82 and the members of his community, without whom this mod would not have been possible. Special thanks to Manfred Tegge for access to photos of places civilian can only reach on selected days.

This is a release as version 0.8!

I wanted to release in time for the Air Defender NATO exercise in the following weeks, since this air base is a major hub in it, so that you can recreate flights without accidently landing in the past ;) There's many obvious corners on which I'm not finished yet with this mod, some buildings I got no information and photos on, others I ran out of skill and time. It is for example planned to have the main maintenance hangar door open on a proximity trigger. So check back on this mod in the future.

No dependencies except World Update 6 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)

The big filesize is due to the new ground aerial. There's no Google Maps/Earth 3D photogrammetry in this mod!

Installation as usual, copy accu-airport-etnw-wunstorf into your Community folder, done.

 

1.6 Update:

• small fix for use in MSFS 2024

1.5 Update:

• Total rework of taxiway signs (integration of the works of atcstefan)
  Rework of taxiway naming scheme (like deactivation of closed "W" taxiway)
  Rework of green centre line lighting of the apron taxisways (way less than I initially thought)
  Changed edge lights on runway 20-02. Deleted PAPIs (has none IRL, is not being used for normal start/landing operations anymore)
  Changed edge lights on runway 26-08
  Added IFR lighting (touchdown zone etc) to 26-08
  New custom illuminated distance marker boards per runway
  New custom train tracks on the base (not the Metronom)
  New custom marker boards for the arrestor cable systems
  New custom "taxiway closed" boards for old "W" taxiway
  Revision of all parking spots. Some renamed, some deleted (those old ones east of the 20-02 runway)
  Changes to ASRS Radar (turn direction, slower, added guy wires, no more blinking)
  Added custom scenery to the Wilhelmstein Island in the "Steinhuder Meer" lake
  Added red illuminated "Hold" lines on main taxiway
  Modelled buildings on the eastern part of the base (A400M training centre)
  Some more fences
  Added rotating beacon to tower (custom asset)
  Added custom windows to basically all the smaller buildings across the base (everything around the apron is basically one big model in Blender, keeps drawcalls down)
  Modelled buildings between tower and eastern part of base (fire department etc)
  Recoloured Transall asset on apron
  Applied "Flattening" (Terraform) to main Apron
  Fixed everything that above Flattening broke lol
  Finished A400 training centre buildings on the east side of the base
  Added small placeholder light masts to eastern anti-icing pad

 

Deutsch:

Dies ist meine Neukreation des Fliegerhorst Wunstorf (ETNW), der Basis des Lufttransport Geschwaders 62 der deutschen Luftstreitkräfte. Die Variante, die standardmäßig im MSFS zu sehen ist, ist über zehn Jahre alt und vollkommen veraltet, da die Satellitenbilder auf Bing Maps den Fliegerhorst noch mitten im Umbau für den Airbus A-400M zeigen, welcher etwa 2010 stattgefunden hat. Heute sieht es dort sehr anders aus.

Eine neue Aerial Textur wurde mit Flying Thestons CGL Methode erzeugt, Hangars, Gebäude, Antennen, Lämpchen, Radarschüsseln, -dome und alles andere wurden von mir anhand von allem was ich öffentlich finden konnte von Hand in Blender und Gimp erstellt (der A-400M basiert auf dem Model von ask13freak @ blendswap, die Transall von Helijah @ blendswap, beide Nutzung gemäß CC-BY-SA)

Dank geht raus an @mamu82 und die Mitglieder seiner Community. Ohne ihn wäre das hier alles nicht möglich gewesen. Dank an Manfred Tegge für Fotos von Orten, zu denen Zivilisten nur selten kommen können.

Dies ist ein Release als Version 0.8!

Ich wollte gerne passend zur Air Defender NATO Übung etwas online stellen, damit ihr die Flüge nachstellen könnt, ohne ausversehen in der Vergangenheit zu landen ;) An vielen Ecken und Enden bin ich noch nicht fertig, zu einigen Gebäuden habe ich keinerlei Informationen und Bilder gefunden, anderes hat zeitlich oder vom Können her nicht mehr geklappt. So ist geplant dass die Tore der großen Wartungshalle sich auf Annhäherung öffnen, dass dafür nötige Skripten beherrsche ich noch nicht. Also abwarten wann mein Update kommt.

Die große Dateigröße kommt nur durch die CGL Grundtexturen zustande, dieser Mod enthält keine 3D Modelle von Google Maps (oder Earth)!

Einzige Abhängigkeit ist World Update 6 (Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz)

Installation wie immer, den accu-airport-etnw-wunstorf Ordner in den üblichen Community Ordner kopieren, fertig.

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ETNW - Fliegerhorst Wunstorf (Wunstorf Air Force Base)

Handcrafted recreation of the ETNW Wunstorf air base in Northern Germany, to replace the totally obsolete representation of this air base in the stock MSFS. Home of the Air Transport Wing 62 of the German Air Force and its fleet of Airbus A-400Ms. This mod comes with custom new CGL aireal imagery replacing the Bing material, and a plethora of assets handcrafted in Blender and textured in Gimp.

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